Posted on 05/07/2006 5:19:26 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
I shall provide my opinion whenever I damn well please.
Fortunately I'm free to do the same. As of the moment, my opinion is that you're acting like a self-important a**. I suspect the overwhelming majority of people reading this thread agree.
Let us break down his actions.
First he drives IN TO the accident scene. Not to mind you "in to" he could have easily hit her.
Second, he just about hits the emergency helicopter that might be her one chance of getting to the hospital on time.
Three he pushes aside the paramedic.
Conclusion he was trying to prevent her from receiving medical treatment. He wanted her to die.
You sure about that? There is nothing in this article that says the cops called him.
Karl Swanson of Holiday, Fla., told the St. Petersburg Times he got a call from his daughter's cell phone late Tuesday: "Listen," the caller said, "your daughter's been in a terrible accident. She's in critical condition. It doesn't look good."
Since when do the police use your phone to call your family?
That alone is the big part of the problem. It endangers everyone there, especially if he hits the idling helicopter.
If this guy is a medical professional, he really has little excuse for that.
Stop the car and walk/run in, announcing who you are, for Pete's sake, rather than endanger everyone there--including his kid.
and you believe everything you read??
Let us break down his actions. First he drives IN TO the accident scene. Not to mind you "in to" he could have easily hit her. Second, he just about hits the emergency helicopter that might be her one chance of getting to the hospital on time.
Using the words of the angry cop does not establish a fact.
How fast was he driving? How close did his car actually come to the helicopter? How close did his car actually come to his daughter? Any skid marks?
In a controversial situation, you can bet that whatever you did will be exaggerated.
Three he pushes aside the paramedic. Conclusion he was trying to prevent her from receiving medical treatment. He wanted her to die.
Let's assume that the United Flight 93 passengers had managed to kill the hijackers and that a passenger who was a crop-duster pilot was in the Captain's seat trying to get the Boeing 757 back under control. Let's say that an actual Boeing 757 pilot rushed into the United Flight 93 cockpit, pushed the crop-duster pilot out of the Captain's seat and took over the controls himself.
Would you classify that as "preventing the aircraft from being flown and wanting the passengers to die"?
As I noted in Post 75, an anesthesiologist is not just any M.D.
An anesthesiologist is the specialist that ICU's rely upon to stabilize their most critically injured patients. In a critical life support situation, you cannot get a higher level of medical expertise than an anesthesiologist.
In a critical life support situation, a paramedic is to an anesthesiologist as a crop-duster pilot is to a Boeing 757 pilot.
If your daughter were on that flight, who would you want in the Captain's seat to regain control of that Boeing 757 and land it safely?
Her father who flies Boeing 757's every day for a living or the guy who flies a crop-duster every day for a living but got to the Captain's seat first?
If you were told your child was dying I really doubt you would just sit their and let him/her die among strangers.
From what he was told, that was the situation.
In addition, he had the most medical training of anyone there.
So wrong answer. You don't simply but your life or your families lives blindly in the trust of government in life and death situations.
I agree. Who cares if he thinks this thread is important or timely?? Does he think we care if he thinks it is or isn't?
I don't have anything against him, but he's acting silly today.
Can you be that dumb?
He had more medical training than anyone on the scene.
Get over yourself.
The guys a doctor... he may have wanted to assess the situation...
I live in Holiday, Florida (look at myspace for proof that I really do live there: http://profile.myspace.com/brandonkerr ) and that is exactly what happened. Our troopers are low-paid officers (starting at just $27,000 per year - their counterparts in this county, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office deputies start at $16.72 per hour) who seem to have a chip on their shoulders because they don't get to do routine law-enforcement like other State's highway patrolmen get to do. They only do traffic operations and do a poor job of doing so.
See this series of articles: http://www.sptimes.com/News/webspecials/lostpatrol/
Cops always lie.
Acts of injustice are always interesting.
He is a physician! He knows the dangers and non-dangers much more than some EMT at the scene. Who do you think the EMT's and Paramedics (note the "para" in paramedic) are? They are the in-between of the untrained and the doctorates in the field of human physiology and medicine.
He was more than just a "member of the GP". He was the most qualified person on the scene, and he was her father.
Florida Highway Patrol troopers said the 48-year-old anesthesiologist drove into the accident scene, narrowly missing an emergency helicopter
I had a cop accuse me of "almost hitting" another cop. It was bullcrap.
What happened?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.